Like plenty people who hold state speech championships, love the smell of old books, have read the works of Hemingway, and find reading and writing poetry by candle light with Iron and Wine blazing in the background a fabulous way to spend a Friday night; I have never been gung-ho about the NFL. Actually, I…
A year ago today, my brother Calvin and I went to meet my brother Tyler at Nairobi’s airport. After a week staying just outside of Nairobi, we went to Kisii, Kenya, the village where both of my Kenyan brothers are from. Simon and Samuel were two AIDS orphans living in that village. They could point…
If we stop following our hearts, we are lost. There is something sacred in the cosmic cycles unfolding around us. They are the constants to the many variables of our lives and the basis for our own biological and social cycles. I’ve always been a New Years guy, love New Years resolutions, and get charged at…
A few days ago in Denver, my brother and I had dinner with Christina, a childhood friend we had not seen in 23 years. The last time the three of us occupied the same room, Tyler was dirtying diapers and I believed my Baby Katie doll was capable of the rational thought I was not.…
I’m on my laptop, on the Internet in a car named Da Rio for Real. We are passing Hebron, ND, exit 102. Snow spattered fields are rolling by under a big ‘ol blue sky swept clean of clouds. Technology is amazing and I doubt I’ll ever ceased to be awed. Our generation might be the last…
And what a manly Movember it has been. From time spent traveling around Iceland seeking the best beards, sampling the manliest food on the planet, to Manly buckets lists, one written by a woman, it has been a month that Indiana Jones and Hulk Hogan would surely endorse. To cap it off, and to settle…
Some men may not agree with my bucket list- to them I say “thicken your stache” Movember is almost over. Tomorrow, I shave my facial hair to perfection and enter a competition with Josh Brownlee from Aim To Travel. Today, Travel Write Sing, has officially lost it’s guest blogger virginity. Emjay Meesh Pelchat, who might…
THANK YOU LIFE Today the members of my family who were able to make it home to Bismarck, ND will don the traditional Thanksgiving flannel and hats and sit down to a meal of a Turkey the size of a fourth grader. We are thankful for our flannel, and our hats and turkey, but mostly…
I have made my thoughts thoughts on the Icelandic dish Hakarl, or fermented shark pretty clear, calling it The Most Disgusting Food On The Planet in a previous post. While in Iceland though, my friend Nick Mavricos and I had to find out, “Who the hell likes this (insert your favorite explicative here)?” Akureyri is…
It’s November, which means a bunch of dudes in moustaches are attempting to write novels. Movember, as those in the Mo call it, is the month that men from different races, religions, and countries set their differences aside and grow moustaches in the communal spirit of facial hair solidarity. Though I shaved my beard at…
